Cartes Postales from Greece: The runaway Sunday Times bestseller

Victoria Hislop

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER.

CARTES POSTALES FROM GREECE is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island, The Return, The Thread, and The Sunrise. It is fiction with a distinctive photographic framework - magical and unique.'Hislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page' Daily Mail

Week after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to a name Ellie does not know, with no return address, each signed with an initial: A.

With their bright skies, blue seas and alluring images of Greece, these cartes postales brighten her life. After six months, to her disappointment, they cease. But the montage she has created on the wall of her flat has cast a spell. She must see this country for herself.

On the morning Ellie leaves for Athens, a notebook arrives. Its pages tell the story of a man's odyssey through Greece. Moving, surprising and sometimes dark, A's tale unfolds with the discovery not only of a culture but also of a desire to live life to the full once more.

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Praise for Cartes Postales from Greece: The runaway Sunday Times bestseller

  • Victoria Hislop's love affair with Greece continues, bringing the country triumphantly to life . . . [her] imaginative and compelling stories paint a remarkable portrait of Greece and its history - Sunday Express S Magazine on Cartes Postales from GreeceWhen it comes to tales about Greece, Hislop is an undisputed queen - and this is easily her best novel yet - Heat on Cartes Postales from GreeceA lavish love letter to Greece - Sunday Mirror on Cartes Postales from GreeceHislop's passionate love of the country breathes from every page - Daily Mail on Cartes Postales from GreeceThis beautiful novel is illustrated with gorgeous photos to really bring the country to life - Fabulous, Sun on Sunday on Cartes Postales from Greece

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Victoria Hislop

Victoria Hislop

Victoria Hislop is the multi-million copy bestselling author of ten books, including The Island, The Return, The Thread, The Sunrise, Those Who are Loved, The Last Dance and Other Stories, Cartes Postales from Greece and One August Night. Victoria's most recent novel, The Figurine, topped the UK TCM as the biggest selling single edition in the country for two consecutive weeks in 2024.

Her books have been translated into forty languages and Victoria was executive producer on the adaptations of three of her novels for Greek television.

Victoria divides her time between England and Greece and in 2020 was granted honorary citizenship by the President of Greece. She is Vice President of the British School at Athens, is on the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles and also on the Advisory Board for the Parthenon Project.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and holds Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Patra and Sheffield. In 2025, she was awarded the Byron Medal for Philhellenism at the Athens Academy and became the first woman to become an honorary member of the Society of Greek Writers.

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